Nine Muses Ball

The Poetry Center of Chicago requests the honor of your presence
at the First Annual

Nine Muses Ball

Friday, February 18, 2011
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Preston Bradley Hall
Chicago Cultural Center

Join us to honor nine muses who have inspired others in the fields of Poetry, Art, Dance, Fashion, Architecture, Theater, Music, Photography and Film.

Dinner, Dancing, Silent Auction
Black Tie optional


For Tickets, visit here.

First Friday @ St. Paul's

Fri, Jan 7
7:30-9:30
St. Paul's Cultural Center/Acme Art Works
2215 W. North Avenue

W4tB presents
First Friday Poetry Classic
See & Hear:

Jacob Saenz
Priscilla Atkins
Ralph Hamilton
Dolly Lemke


beverages available at cool low prices

W4tB presents Open Mic at the Bus Stop

Dangerous Amusements

On 15 Jan. 2011, The Chicago Poetry Brothel Will Present: Dangerous Amusements

At The Chicago House of Blues—The Brilliant Entrance to the Underworld Itself—Doors open at 8 pm.

Young girls who have danced a little are attracted by the blazing light, gaiety and apparent happiness of the parlor & the games within, which, in many instances, leads to their downfall. Young men have little idea just how wicked the scantily attired Poetry Whores are with their honeyed-up poems. There is no turning away now darling, join us for a night of dangerous amusements, poetry mad libs and charades. $5 if dressed Victorian. $10 if not.

Never been to a poetry brothel? Here is a taste of what you’ve been missing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvykwKIS_dA&feature=player_embedded


Love,
The Madam Black-eyed Susan

The Encyclopedia Show

Wed, Jan 5
7:30 PM
Vittum Theatre
1012 N Noble St,

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA SHOW PRESENTS SERIES 3, VOLUME 5:
BRAINS !

Chicago Slam Works brings to you the 2009 "Orgie Theatre Award" winning Encyclopedia Show.

Tickets at the door.
$8 Adults
$5 Students
All ages

www.encyclopediashow.com

This Month - BRAINS. With music, poetry, visual art and spoken word on the topic: BRAINS.

Featuring (Contributor - Theme):

James Tadd Adcox (Artifice Magazine) The Technium;

Mary Hamilton(Quickies!) Prosopagnosia;

Tasha Viets-VanLear (LTAB Finalist) Lucid Dreaming;

Mason Johnson (Silvertongue Reading Series) Krang (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles);

Caitlin Parrish (USC MFA Candidate) Toxoplasmosis;

Jim Dobson (International Forensics Superstar) Octopus Tentacle Peripheral Nervous Systems;

an original composition on Alzheimer's Disease by composer Roy Magnuson and performed by the Élan String Quartet;

and an interview with professional neurologist Dr. Rimas V. Lukas.

With hosts

Robbie Q Telfer (Author of Spiking the Sucker Punch) and

Shanny Jean Maney (Author of Our Brave Faces Were Just Smiles)

cast regulars:

Fact Checker Ian Belknap (Write Club);

Patrick Carberry (Fiction Writer);

Tim Stafford (HBO Def Poet);

Joel Chmara (HBO Def Poet);

Edward Thomas-Herrera(Boy Girl Boy Girl);

Evan Chung (Musician) - House Band Leader "The Encartagans";

and Emily Rose (Poetry Vet and House Manager) -as Jilted Emily Rose.

About The Encyclopedia Show
Winner of a 2009 "Orgie Theatre Award", The Encyclopedia Show is brought to you from the minds of poets and producers Robbie Q Telfer and Shanny Jean Maney. The Encyclopedia Show showcases visual art, comedy, music and spoken word on a wide variety of subjects related to a chosen topic. Each month a new topic is picked from the encyclopedia and related assignments are sent to a diverse group of writers, artists, poets and performers. Past contributors have included Bill Ayers, Marc Smith, Paul Sereno, Anis Mojgani, Idris Goodwin, Lisa Buscani, Cameron McGill, Kevin Coval, Cin Salach, Roger Bonair-Agard and Derrick Brown. For audio from previous shows and additional information, please visit www.encyclopediashow.com

The Encyclopedia Show draws its novice and notable talent from Chicago Area and National Artists in the Slam, Academic and Youth artists' communities. To date, the show has been staged in ten different cities around the globe from Austin to Vancouver to Seoul South Korea.

About Chicago Slam Works:
Chicago Slam Works brings together audiences, poets and arts organizations to promote the quality of oral tradition through well-crafted poetry. www.chicagoslamworks.com.

Tallgrass Writer's Guild

Wed, Dec 28
7:30pm

The Bourgeois Pig
738 West Fullerton

Tim. W. Brown will be the Featured Author at the December 28 TallGrass Writers Guild Open Mic, 7:30pm upstairs at The Bourgeois Pig, 738 West Fullerton, Chicago, when he will read excerpts from his latest novel, Second Acts, and discuss its development.

Brown graduated summa cum laude with an American studies degree from Northern Illinois University. He is the author of three novels, Deconstruction Acres (1997), Left of the Loop (2001) and Walking Man (2008). His latest literary effort is Second Acts, a comic historical novel set in 1830s America, released in October 2010. Brown’s fiction, poetry and nonfiction have appeared in over two hundred publications, including Another Chicago Magazine, The Bloomsbury Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chelsea, Chiron Review, Colorado Review, The Fiction Review, The Ledge, Main Street Rag, New Observations, Oyez Review, Pleiades, Poetry Project Newsletter, Rain Taxi, Rockford Review, Slipstream, Small Press Review, and Storyhead. A long-time resident of Chicago, where he was a fixture in that city’s literary scene as a writer, performer, and publisher of Tomorrow Magazine (1982-1999), Brown moved to New York in 2003. He currently earns his living as a writer at Bloomberg.

“Really clicking, Second Acts is a picaresque, sci-fi/western, such as Verne or Welles might have penned it. In subverting history Brown’s tale celebrates it, with a scholar’s eye for authentic details and at a pacing so swift the pages give off a nice breeze.”–Peter Selgin

“Half-magical, half-farcical, Second Acts is full of vitality and humor, a modern update of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Second Acts is a sparkling gem of a book, one that inspires both contemplation and more than a few belly laughs.”–Greg Downs

“Second Acts draws equally upon history and imagining, and the result is a brilliant book that Mark Twain might’ve written had he shared a brain with Jack Finney for awhile.”–Sharon Mesmer

Following Brown is the regularly scheduled Open Mic, where participants are welcome to present up to 10 minutes of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, music, comedy and more. Cover charge for the full evening is $6 reduced to $5 for students. For details, call 219-322-7270 or email outriderpress@sbcglobal.net or tallgrassguild@sbcglobal.net.

TallGrass Writers Guild is a registered, 501-C-3 nonprofit arts organization.

W4tB presents Open Mic at the Bus Stop

IT'S DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY NIGHT. OPEN MIC AND SUPER FEATURE DONNA VORREYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!